In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.